R.M. Engelhardt

R.M. Engelhardt is an American Poet, Writer & Author who over the last 30 years has published several books of poetry including Where There Is No Vision, Coffee Ass Blues & Other Poems, The Last Cigarette: The Collected Poems of R.M. Engelhardt, The Resurrection Waltz, Dark Lands and others. Through his ideas and visions he has helped to create a large amount of the Upstate/Albany, NY Spoken Word ~Poetry Scene and is the former host of the long running “The School of Night”  An Open Forum-Mic For All Poets in the late 1990's/Early 2000's and now hosts  "INVOCATION " A Spoken Word Poetry Event Monthly held in Downtown Albany NY at Lark Hall . He is also the creator of the "Of Mysticism, Magic & Science" group on Facebook which supports the Spiritual, Pagan-Wiccan community as well as being the Editor of the Independent Small Poetry Press DeadMansPressInk which publishes, promotes and helps writers & poets to put their unique work out into the world with a concentration on Pagan Poetics & experimental literature.

His work has been published by such journals as Retort, Red Fez, Rusty Truck, Sure! The Charles Bukowski Newsletter, Thunder Sandwich, Fashion For Collapse, 2nd Avenue, The Angry Poet, Black Noise, Winedrunk Sidewalk, Full of Crow, The Outlaw Poetry Network, The Rye Whiskey Review, Fishbowl Poetry Press, The Black Shamrock,  Trailer Park Quarterly, Spillwords, Dumpster Fire Press,  Punk Noir Magazine & in many others. The original founder of the group Albany Poets.Org (Now a part of The HVWG) and the creator of The Albany WordFest he currently lives in Upstate NY where he writes and lives with wife poet/writer/artist Kali who is a writer, photographer & artist.

*His new books of poetry are entitled "RAW" Poems 2023, "We Rise Like Smoke" Poems, Psalms & Incantations 2021 & "Of Spirit, Ash & Bone" Poems*Parables 2022 now both available on Amazon as well as his previous books, " Darklands" 2019 & " The Resurrection Waltz" 2012.